This year marks the 15th anniversary of one of the '90s most memorable pop culture moments -- Oklahoma indie stars the Flaming Lips paying a visit to the gang of the original 'Beverly Hills, 90210' at the Peach Pit. Lips frontman Wayne Coyne tells Spinner the band still gets recognized for it. "I run into people all the time who've seen that show in reruns," he says.

Now, of course, it's a moment the band can laugh about but Coyne admits it almost didn't happen. "We'd already been a band for 10 years," he says. "But I think earlier on we probably would have just scoffed at it and said, 'We're not into this silliness. We're a serious band, we do art and we do music and f--- you.' But I think we were starting to embrace the kind of absurd extras that come with being in a rock band because really that's where all the fun is, to tell you the truth."

What prompted the trip down memory lane -- via Rodeo Drive -- was another encounter the band had recently with mainstream acceptance when their song, 'Do You Realize,' was named the state rock song of Oklahoma. To rank the occasion alongside '90210' and the band's appearance a few years ago on a float in the Rose Parade, Coyne compared them to different levels of fame. "I guess you'd have to divide the categories up: there's the category of just making music and being an artist and then there's the category of sort of being famous in typical rock 'n' roll sort of ways and then there's the category of just plain absurd," Coyne says. "I suppose if you're Garth Brooks, being in a parade and having the state rock song would probably just fall into the normal things. But being in the Flaming Lips, being in the Rose Bowl parade is utterly absurd. We know -- what are we doing here with this sort of mainstream stuff?"

And it all started in Beverly Hills. "It was absurd, it was kind of humiliating, it was kind of fun, it was kind of ridiculous," Coyne says. "The episode proved to be all that."